Comments on: 125 — How Much Post Processing is Too Much — Interview w/ Darwin Wiggett and Sam Chrysanthou

By: Marko Kulik

Marko Kulik — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:29:19 +0000

Thanks for commenting and everyone is entitled to their opinion Don — and I’m not sure what your photography background is.
That said, Composite photography has been around for over 150 years. I’d bet hard most photographers that have been around a while would disagree with your suggestion that it is not photography.

I do agree with labelling though but that’s a whole other story.

By: Don Crasco

Don Crasco — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 04:21:28 +0000

Composite photography(“no one seems to care any more”) is not photography, but an adulteration of reality. I personally find it to be very disappointing; when not labeled as a composite, I find it to be morally corrupt !

By: Marko Kulik

Marko Kulik — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:04:47 +0000

Appreciate the comment Daniel. Feel free to connect with me on Facebook as well.
Cheers!

By: Daniel Cybulskie

Daniel Cybulskie — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 20:28:39 +0000

Hi Marko,

I just discovered your podcast this morning and I really enjoyed it! This was a great topic of discussion and I think the casual style of conversation is very easy to listen to.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some old episodes to go listen to…

Daniel

By: Choices, Choices, Choices... and Lessons from Over 25 years of Photography | oopoomoo : create, inspire, educate

Fri, 03 Jan 2014 20:41:51 +0000

[...] Lesson: Photoshop makes anything possible, but you gotta tell people when things are not real! In the transition days while I was still shooting film and waiting for digital cameras to become a contender in terms of quality to my medium format camera, I did a lot of Photoshop composite work in the digital darkroom. I would scan my slides into digital format and then mess with them in the computer making scenes that did not exist except in my imagination. In this image I took a cowgirl and her horse from a shot I did in British Columbia and put her into Wilcox Pass in Jasper National Park (where horses are not allowed, by the way). After people viewed the image and found out it was a composite, they often felt really betrayed. So after that, any time I posted one of my composite images I made mention of the fact. I used to mark composite images on the thumbnails on my website so people could decide if they wanted to view ‘fake’ images or not. No one really seems to care much any more if an image is real or not especially since most photos out there today look fanciful with all the digital darkroom work done to them. Even so it is still important to let people know about composite images so they can decide the value of the image to them as viewers. Samantha and I talk about this idea of ‘how far is too far in post processing’ in a recent podcast interview over at Photography.ca [...]